Jennifer Garner is a Hollywood star who is also the mother of three children with her ex Ben Affleck. In a new interview to promote her new movie Yes Day, Garner opened up about how hard it has been as a mother to have to say “no” to her kids too many times this year in the midst of COVID-19.

“This has been such a hard year for moms. We have had to say ‘No, no, no.’ We’ve had to watch our kids be home, miss out on things. It is one thing to miss out on something as an adult, but to watch your kids miss something they have looked forward to or just how hard it has been to see them isolated and on Zoom every day… this is a breath of fresh air,” Garner told Entertainment Tonight of her new movie. “This is a wish-fulfillment day of yes, and it is just so fun to watch moms watch the movie.”

Garner is mom to 15-year-old Violet, 12-year-old Seraphina and 9-year-old Samuel with Affleck, and to them, her being a movie star just isn’t a big deal.

“It is not a positive to be me… Someone who people would think, ‘Oh, how cool to have that person as a mom.’ No,” she said with a laugh. “But my teenager and my adolescent are both lovely. So I have to say, I have it pretty easy as far as that goes.”

Because of her experience with her own teenage daughter, she didn’t want their to be friction between her character and her character’s teenage daughter in Yes Day.

“I definitely know that the pain of growing up, the pain of separating from the mom when you are so, so close,” she said. “The first draft of the script really had a lot of friction and the teenager was really snarky… and they did not seem to like each other. I said, ‘That is not what it is. The point is it’s that painful without any of that. It is heartbreaking anyway just letting your kid grow up.’ And I loved the way that it turned out, especially because we had Jenna Ortega.”